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Da Package feels good. Their reduced sweep with the 45mm stem feels almost exactly like the geo of my Deity Speedway bar on a 50mm stem FWIW.

The article was just updated with leverage rate, anti-squat and anti-rise graphs. The leverage rate definitely rises. Winner winner, air shocks only for dinner.

I do think companies have moved to OEM cockpit because at that point, people have their own preferences so why bother speccing Raceface when people are just going to replace it with chromag or deity anyway to get the sweep and matching kit they want and raise the price it 500$ more. The XO1 Session is aluminum and complete with all Bontrager parts including wheels and tires, although I do thing Bontrager's wheel are severely underrated, other than the RS ultimate fork and shock and XO1 Drivetrain. The glory gets a carbon frame, fox factory and actual tires that grip...

Good call in, Jeff. n=1, I talked to my wife about this yesterday before I wrote the original post. For context: she's a casual rider, married a bike mechanic 21 years ago, is a certified Sex, Love, and Relationship coach with a focus on somatic therapy, who works with women of many different experiences and backgrounds. Oh, and she has a degree in marketing/communications, and spent a couple of decades working in that field. She felt that this ad was, at best, marginally off-putting. The fact that bike media has for so long put women into the status of décor...

I could look at this all day!

If my vest had sleeves it would be my jacket.....

The adjustments are super cool. Kind of like having full factory "we'll have the machine shop get something out for you" customization without the machine shop...

I've got a 2020 Glory 27.5 frame w/ 29er front end and an Offset Bushing to drop the BB back down. I actually love the crap out of it as is and I've got to talk to my buddy a lot about the new one. They've been putting in tons of work on the back end for 2 seasons now without the internet really noticing the various tweaks. Excited to get the new one. Anyone interested in a very nicely equipped 2020 Glory size medium?

Correct, the stem is a standard 35mm job. And yes, with an open enough faceplate, “any” stem should work.

the ~10lb weight won't help things either.

I meant a new frame with the Shimano system again.

They released the bike >1 year ago

Looks like an ebike with a Shimano controler on the left of the bar and the usual shimano screen near the stem. Interesting if there is a new version of the ebike with a Shimano system.

I don't think it is particularly offensive or in poor taste, just not great marketing: There is no way I'm opening Vital at work (open space) while that ad pops up on my screen, and there is absolutely no way I would click on it.

Ah, that explains my confusion. I worked in motorcycles for six years.

With it being designed for 20inch wheels I somewhat doubt that

Yup I agree, I honestly thought that ad was just some banner for wish.com or banggood.....not an actual mtb company. It was pretty hard to tell it had anything to do with bikes? Poor judgement went on here IMO

I've been telling people for ten years that my single pivot DH bike that I made was maximum rising rate. (The swing arm and shock are at ninety degrees to each other at full bottom out.

thing looks like it has a wicked rising leverage ratio. I hope I'm wrong, but you'll have to run all the air spacers and all the high speed compression to keep it off the bottom.

Forgive me if I'm tripping. But don't you mean falling rate? Is my terminology backward?